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Is This Texas Oil Icon a Price-Fixing Saudi Collaborator or a Political Scapegoat?
23 Jan 2025 15:21 GMT
The oilman who brought the Permian Basin back from the dead was eating a Chick-fil-A salad and feeling persecuted. There were countless things Scott Sheffield would rather have been doing than lunching with his lawyer. Like playing tennis, or teaching one …
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Populism, Price-Fixing, and Big Money
31 Dec 2024 11:02 GMT
… meetings between company executives. Algorithmic price-fixing is where competitors in the … , health care, agriculture, hospitality, and airlines. My piece looked at the … accused of facilitating a landlord price-fixing cartel jacking up rents across …
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US Airlines Are Bad and Don’t need to be Competitive – The Ugly Truth
11 Jan 2025 06:51 GMT
… littered with airline price-fixing schemes. Starting soon after deregulation, these price-fixing schemes were … , American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, the …
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AI pricing is market efficiencies at work
28 Jan 2025 22:17 GMT
… campaign against so-called “digital price fixing,” targeting AI-driven pricing algorithms … on exchanges. A generation ago, airline pricing algorithms recognized that to … most fliers, airline seats are effectively commodities. First …
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Labour’s flirtation with price fixing won’t end well
03 Sep 2024 14:31 GMT
Almost everyone is aware of the concept of peak hours pricing. If you buy a train ticket to travel during rush hour it costs more than at other times. Few people object to this. Indeed, most of us think it helps. It means that people who don’t need to …
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Jet Blue and American Airlines Guilty in Antitrust Suit, Despite No Clear Harm to Consumers
13 Nov 2024 22:43 GMT
… increased prices or diminished the airlines'; quality of service. Nonetheless, … since its implementation and American Airlines'; has increased monotonically since … the airline industry, there's even an economic argument in support of price-fixing (which …
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Airlines' teamwork won't help customers, First Circuit rules in DOJ antitrust case
13 Nov 2024 17:54 GMT
… Alliance" between American Airlines and JetBlue - an … competition between the two airlines. That fight for customers … General Merrick Garland said.
“The airline industry — like every industry … all, one could describe price-fixing as a joint venture.…
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Feds accuse RealPage of price-fixing rent
26 Aug 2024 19:15 GMT
… also had personal experience with price-fixing litigation.
Jeffrey
Roper, a principal … revenue management director
for Alaska Airlines, where the company's …
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Algorithmic Software-Facilitated Price Fixing with Jonathan Rubin
03 Jul 2024 03:38 GMT
Everyone knows that price fixing is against the law, chiefly … by individual firms, such as airlines, e-commerce platforms, ride-share …
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Mānawa Bay opening reignites tensions between airlines and Auckland Airport - The Front Page
24 Sep 2024 04:50 GMT
… they are frustrated. The airlines are worried that Auckland Airport … for passengers and planes.”
Airlines have already come out … comes to a head around price fixing every five years,” Bradley … and required negotiation with airlines.
Bradley said feelings were …